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Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Ancestral tourism workshops for Homecoming Scotland

Former Registrar General of Scotland, George MacKenzie, has just been in touch with the following, which may be of interest to any businesses seeking advice on the opportunities that may be presented from the forthcoming Homecoming Scotland initiative in 2014:

There is a major push on ancestral tourism from Tourism Intelligence Scotland, a partnership of Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and VisitScotland. Following the new guide for businesses launched in July, they have announced a series of workshops across Scotland. These are aimed principally at business people, rather than genealogists and archivists, but we're hoping some of them will participate too, and also local family history societies. The idea is to explain the potential of this market and how to reach it, and to encourage a joined up approach so that ancestral visitors get a consistent and warm welcome wherever they go in Scotland. The initiative is timed to get ready for Homecoming 2014 next year.